ISic000696: Fragment of a Latin text
- ID
- ISic000696
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph;
- 1: Manganaro: [--- proc(urator) f]a.[il(iae) glad(atoriae) (!)]; Buonocore: [--- proc(uratori) f]a.[il(iarum) glad(iatoriarum)]
- 2: Manganaro, Buonocore: [per - - - ]Sic(iliam), Ae[m(iliam)---]
- 3: Manganaro, Buonocore: [- - - ]Dalma[tiam - - -]
- 4: Manganaro: [proc. ? ludi mag]ni, duc[enarius---]; Buonocore: [proc(uratori) Ludi Matuti]ni duc[en(ario) Ludi Magni]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- The central section of a marble plaque, broken on all sides, preserving parts of four lines of Latin letters.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 19 cm, width: 18 cm, depth: 4.6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin letters, with guidelines to top and bottom of each line. Line 4 smaller than the first three.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 35mm
- Line 4: 25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- First published by Manganaro 1988, but seen by Buonocore in 1987. Precise circumstances of discovery not recorded.
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 250)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
Manganaro's speculative restoration (followed, with very minor alterations, by Buonocore), based upon a suggested parallel of ILS 9014 seems difficult to sustain, on several grounds. The reading of AM in line 1 seems difficult (the space after the final vertical is excessive for M, especially comparing M in line 3), but above all, the absence of any interpunctuation in the letter sequence of line 2 makes the proposal of Sic(iliam) Ae[m(iliam)] extremely unlikely and 'Moesicae', 'Corsicae' or 'classicae' seems much more likely, reflecting a military cursus; lastly the reading DVC in line 4 also seems questionable, with DVO at least as plausible from the traces on the stone (and in turn compatible with duovir, among many other things), and [---]NI clearly has other possible restorations compatible with a cursus. It seems much safer to read this as a fragmentary public honorific for a member of the colonial elite of the high imperial period.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1989.0339c
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 58
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 165 no.25 fig.25
- M. Buonocore, Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell’occidente romano. III. Regiones Italiae II-V, Sicilia, Sardinia et Corsica, Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell’occidente romano (Rome: Quasar, 1992), at 26 no.3 tav.VI fig.1
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- James Hua
- system
- Last revision
- 8/5/2024